The incident emerged when two employees of a private foreign exchange company were traveling in a taxi, intending to deposit the funds in a state-run bank in Park Circus.
The shocking incident bears eerie resemblance to the recent Meerut case, where a merchant navy officer was killed by his wife and her lover.
Hailing from Ghaziabad, the accused possessed a diploma in medical laboratory technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Science.
According to police, the crime was planned by her husband, Rakesh Roshan, after his extramarital affair with a hospital staff member was exposed. The other accused include his younger brother Atul and three hospital employees, one of whom is a woman.
In his order on Thursday, Additional Sessions Judge from Kalyan P R Ashturkar also imposed a fine of Rs 6,000 on the 39-year-old convict, a resident of the Ambernath area.
The horrifying details of the crime emerged after police interrogation led to the discovery of the remains in the couple’s rented home in Indiranagar, Meerut.
The victim, who had recently traveled from the UK, had been in contact with one of the accused through a social media platform. Their online connection prompted her visit to Delhi to meet him.
According to the police, Ashok Kumar, a resident of Trilokpuri, had been planning the murder of his 40-year-old wife, Meenakshi, for months.
Law enforcement officers retrieved the suspect from the Khajuri Khas area and seized the knife allegedly used in the crime.
He used Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology to hide his location and IP address so that he does not have to attend the school, they said.
Officials said the bodies of Karan (25) and Khushi (19), from Pandrawal village in Chhatari area, were found on the outskirts of the village.
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma, however, granted liberty to the petitioner to approach the trial court for bail after one year.
The suspects, Dhaval Bhai Shah from Ahmedabad, and Tarun Natani and Karan Shamdasani from Ulasnagar, Maharashtra, were taken into custody on January 10.
The incident took place in Gola ka Mandir area on Tuesday night, said City Superintendent of Police Nagendra Singh Sikarwar.
During the investigation, the police found that Golu frequently made social media reels with one of the suspects, Ranjeet (30), the DCP said.
Himanshu Kumar, who was from Bihar, was apprehended Tuesday by the Madhya Pradesh Police’s anti-terror squad, the police said.
The note said if he failed to pay the amount, it would result in “deth” of his brother. Kumar also received a 13-second video clip in which his brother could be seen tied with a rope.
The victim, who met the suspect on Bumble, was misled into sharing private photos and videos, which the accused threatened to leak unless paid, according to police reports.
The complainant, an engineer with a private company, lost the money between September and November, he said.
Vishnoi, who hails from Jodhpur in Rajasthan, is a third-year MBBS student of the Government Medical College in Maharashtra’s Alibag, he said.
As the news spread on Monday morning, the local people gheraoed the house of the accused and demanded his immediate arrest.
Additional Sessions Judge Kuldeep Singh on Tuesday convicted the victim’s husband Neeraj, brother-in-law Deepu, mother-in-law Shanti Devi and sister-in-law Meenu.
The police on December 13 recovered the body of a 35-year-old woman on the banks of Kathjodi river in Cuttack under Kandarpur police station.
The 34-year-old techie ended his life on Monday in Bengaluru, alleging harassment at the hands of his estranged wife and her family.
The caller said that illegal activities like money laundering, human trafficking and drug trafficking were being done using her Aadhaar card.
